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India, Sept. 10 -- Howsoever persistently we may counter Pakistan's adventurism and militarism, challenge the terms it sets, defang its threat threshold, one thing can never change. And that is its export of terror in hydra-headed manifestations. So a report that Pakistan has secretly released now UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar, obviously to raise a batch of fidayeens and push them into India, doesn't come as much of a surprise. With India's clever reorganisation of Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan's isolation on the subject in world diplomacy, the latter is clearly left with no option but to engage in local level offensives, be it diplomatically, militarily or surreptitiously. Since the first two have hardly worked, the last is its o...